Microsoft outage hits hospitals, GPs, schools and police across UK

NHS suffering ‘serious’ and widespread disruption, while people are told of possible delays in receiving prescriptions Vital UK services have been hit by a global Microsoft outage that left hospital staff resorting to paper records and fuelled concerns about an over-reliance on a small number of tech companies.

A day of widespread disruption sent some sectors back to the 1990s, with court staff looking for fax…